Sentences with phrase «poor home access»

Intended to help schools address the attainment gap amongst children from low income families, some of this funding could be used to address the digital divide and ensure pupils who have poor home access are equipped with the resources they need.

Not exact matches

But when poor women, without access to first - rate child care, choose to stay home with their babies, we tend to call them lazy welfare mothers.

Although affluent and urban women began having their babies in hospitals, however, medically underserved populations, such as rural women with limited access to hospitals and poor women who couldn't afford to give birth in the hospitals, continued to give birth at home.

Children growing up in disadvantaged circumstances — in cold and damp homes, with little access to green space for play and recreation and parents struggling to make ends meet — are more likely to experience poor health now and into adulthood.

It is worth noting that while people under age 65 in the U.S. live in a heavily market - dominated economy where poor employment outcomes mean poverty and a lack of access to health care, almost everyone over age 65 has most of their healthcare paid for by Medicare, (a FICA tax financed, single payer system that pays providers more or less the same rates as private insurance companies and has few cost controls), more than half of their nursing home costs paid by Medicaid, (which is stingy in how much it pays providers and moderately means tested), and receives enough of a guaranteed income from the combination of Social Security and SSI payments to keep the poverty rate for people age 65 +, (even if they have no retirement savings of their own), above the poverty line, regardless of the state of the local economy.

In the South Indian communities in this study, most residents are poor, don't have access to bank accounts, and they rely on family and friends to help with farming, home - building and other crucial tasks.

She suspects it is because those living in poor families today have «poor health, limited access to home environments with rich language and experiences, low birth weight, limited access to high - quality pre-school opportunities, less participation in many activities in the summer and after school that middle class families take for granted, and more movement in and out of schools because of the way that the housing market operates.»

The report, which drew on nearly 100 different studies, found that teenagers from poorer homes are more likely to be uncertain about the qualifications they need to access their chosen career and get the skills they need.

Poor home internet access resulted in two pilot schools running «managed homework sessions» in school time in the computer suite, or including the videos in a carousel of activities during lesson time.

Limiting the access of middle class families to wide - ranging school choices (and even more - expansive Parent Power) just because they have the perceived financial means to buy homes and send kids to private schools is just as intellectually and morally indefensible as limiting the choices of the poor.

The follow chart shows, yet again, that charter schools cream off the children that are less poor and they provide very limited access to Latino students, especially those who go home to families where English is not the primary language.

Mare lives with her impoverished family in a desolate, poor town known as The Stilts (appropriately named due to homes being suspended above the ground on stilts - thus only being accessed by ladders).

An appraiser's final report will be inclusive of the home's flaws and the list of issues which could be dragging down the home's value, like poor street access.

* Not clean enough (scoop daily; change completely and thoroughly wash and rinse the box every few weeks, depending on usage) * Not big enough * Sides too high (especially for kittens and arthritic older cats) * Sides too low (cat's rear ends up hanging over the edge) * Doesn't like the lid * Prefers a lid * Doesn't like the liner * All boxes lined up in one location * Box in wrong location (too noisy, too much traffic, poor access, insufficient visibility) * Inadequate access to boxes (doors or stairs in the way; e.g., multi-level homes need a box on each floor) * Aversive cleanser used (Pine - Sol, Lysol) * Mechanical box too scary * Access problems (door accidentally closed, access blocked by anotheaccess, insufficient visibility) * Inadequate access to boxes (doors or stairs in the way; e.g., multi-level homes need a box on each floor) * Aversive cleanser used (Pine - Sol, Lysol) * Mechanical box too scary * Access problems (door accidentally closed, access blocked by anotheaccess to boxes (doors or stairs in the way; e.g., multi-level homes need a box on each floor) * Aversive cleanser used (Pine - Sol, Lysol) * Mechanical box too scary * Access problems (door accidentally closed, access blocked by anotheAccess problems (door accidentally closed, access blocked by anotheaccess blocked by another cat)

While there are about 274 million households worldwide that lack access to electricity, Mills» study focuses on the «poorest of the poor,» or about 112 million households, largely in Africa and Asia, that can not afford even a mini solar home system, which might power a fan, a few lights, a phone charger, and a small TV.

More specifically, how can we shift policy and regulation to scale up distributed renewable energy — for example, solar home systems or village - scale solar power systems — that could help many of the world's poorest get access to electricity for the first time?

Food prices in Harare, for example, rose 534 percent between 1991 and 1992 due to the removal of subsidies and price controls, spurring poor urban consumers to get access to food outside of market channels through home production or bartering (Tevera 1996).

Beyond trying to make a profit, MKOPA serves an important role in rural Africa where there is poor access to the grid: Its solar home systems are the leading way to electrify rural areas in Kenya where more than 30 % of Kenyans still lack electricity access.

They tend to live in poorer housing, have poorer health, less access to home insurance, and less money to adapt to price rises.

But ultimately the report endorses a vision for energy access in which the world's poor consume just 0.15 percent of the average Californian, home to Sierra Club headquarters and many of its high - energy staff and members.

Unfortunately, these integrated modem / routers are usually of much poorer quality than stand - alone routers, and none that I know of allow you to build out mesh networks that have multiple wireless access points (or APs) that enable you to blanket your home with Wi - Fi (although Comcast will offer such a feature soon).

Where internships are unpaid, for unpaid internships universities should divert some of the funds intended to widen poorer students» access to higher education — rather than let work experience be the preserve of undergraduates from wealthier homes, the report says.

The study defined poor transit access for seniors in terms of the average number of bus, rail or ferry routes within walking distance of their homes.

According to a Transportation for America report published last year, a large number of seniors in the United States are stranded in their homes because of poor access to public transportation.

Hundreds of millions of people around the world, in poor and developing countries, lack access to credit due to absent or inadequate credit histories — credit that that could help in starting a business, pay for an education, or buy a home.

(what does HOT mean and to who)- «numerous upgrades» (does that mean 4 or 100)- «high end flooring» (does than mean $ 1 or $ 100 per sq ft)- «throughout» (does that mean in the closets and patio too)- «loads of cupboards» (I guess a transport is backing up right now)- «freshly painted» (does it smell nice)- «ready to move into» (i guess they got a mold test done before listing)- «Full bathrooms» (i guess you better hold it then)--» parking for 4 cars» (hondas or crown vics)-» mature neighbourhood» (is that old or does it mean no more vacant land exists)- «fenced in» (I guess that means the agent saw the permits and survey already)- «easy access to highways» (does this means it backs onto a major noisy four lane)- «tastefully updated» (I guess you can eat off the floors)- «sony 60» TV (glad to see the agent agreeing to pay for repairs)- «single attached garage» (a member of ashley madison maybe)-» tree lined street» (glad to see the city has been contacted to verify no remediation)- «this really is a fabulous home» (wow assuming all that liability in one phrase)-» within walking distance» (one block for grannies or 2 miles for teens)- «country life in the city» (you can have chickens and plow the yard)-» great location» (I guess all their other listings have a poor one)- «brand new» (wow that means what exactly)